Dianna Russini
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Ooh.
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Yeah, it was less about the firings and more about who was being retained. I would say, let's just start with the firing category. I'm shocked the Patriots really did it. There was a lot of chatter about it, but I can't believe they really pulled the trigger. But in terms of those that were retaining, I can't believe the Giants kept Joe Shane and Brian D'Abel. I cannot believe it from...
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Everything we saw in Hard Knocks to obviously Saquon Barkley having the most ridiculous season to the mess with Daniel Jones to winning just three games. All of the drama in New York, it just seemed like this was the time. This isn't working. And just even from things I know, this isn't working.
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But John Mara sticking with his words that he said in October, which was that he didn't want any change. Yet, did you hear him talking about...
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retaining them like it's like painful for him yeah it's saying that he like these guys are going to have to win every game otherwise they're going to be walking off the field going am i getting fired today and i just think it's a really they're being put a really really hard spot and uh in jacksonville too with gm brent uh trent bulky i think that one was pretty surprising a lot of people thought he'd be out yeah yeah yeah and with doug peterson being gone and it it shocked me to find this out yesterday our good friend uncle chap sent me a very sad jaguar stat
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Bill Belichick.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. Look, I think that job is actually more coveted than you'd realize. You know, when you take a look big picture, I would say, let's just put it in order. I'd go Patriots, Bears, Jags in terms of openings of what coaches I know that I've been talking to want. Yeah.
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Um, and the Jags roster with Trevor Lawrence, there's not this belief around the league that Trevor Lawrence is not the guy, even though he hasn't been great. Um, every coach wants a quarterback. You have to go to a place to have success that has a quarterback in place. That's decent. And that, that can win you games. Um,
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And those are those three teams, which is why everyone is trying to get those interviews and you see everyone is off and running. But the Trent Baalke situation is, to me, that just, I read it as the owner doesn't want to go through the process of searching for a head coach without some guidance. These guys are not football guys. They don't know. Look at the Jets.
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They hired a search firm of people they fired just to do it so they didn't have to.
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No. Look, I don't like memes, but I don't not like, like, I like the Jets.
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People don't know this. I grew up a Jets fan. I live.
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I want to see them successful. But it's the same story. And memes, you feel this. And you're a lot younger than me. So your pain is different than mine. And mine is much worse. They've been making these mistakes that are so ridiculous every single year. And it just seems like they can't get out of their own way, as you guys know and have been following all the reporting.
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Well, last week they had Ron Rivera in the building and Mike Vrabel in the building at Florham Park with the team out practicing at the same time. Just wild, but that's what they chose to do. They are casting a very, very wide net, as you're seeing, almost to a point where I wonder if Mike Tannenbaum's getting paid per interview.
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It's just like every... I'm sure you guys were following along yesterday. How many slips went... I must have typed the word jets 50 times yesterday in terms of, you know, coaches that that are going to be taking and general managers interviews with them um look i think aaron glenn brian flores brian greasy arthur smith joe brady i mean matt nagy
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matt naggy yeah yeah matt naggy's gonna get a job yeah i think in this cycle he's getting a lot of love behind the scenes from teams and um i i think i think naggy was i think the best move he made was to go back to kansas city sort of reset figure out where he messed up what mistakes he made get that confidence back up by being around the you know the greatest to do it um And he's ready to go.
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So I'm interested to see what his staff is going to look like because that's obviously going to be an important element in all this.
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Yes. That is weird.
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It's also like look at the Bears, right? They technically could have had Ron Rivera, Mike Bramble come in last week. You know, they had that ability to do it.
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they chose not to do it because, well, first of all, the Chicago bears, their first round of interviews are all virtual. Okay. So you're not like Mike Rabel and Ron Rivera, not flying in there. Um, that Ron's not going there by the way, but, um, everything's virtual first.
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And then through those virtual interviews, then they're going to pick the guys for their, for the, for the next round to come in to, to meet in person. And obviously the bears don't think Mike Rabel is too big to interview.
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He should like, I know. No. What? no you reported that i i was amplifying your reporting on this we've done this so many times and it's so how big is too big if he lost 20 pounds would he get a job okay i was thinking about i was like i'm not telling them this but i'm gonna tell you yes somebody from the jets said damn he's really big yeah I've been saying this.
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Yeah, Brick standing next to Brick for sure. And no, Brick and Jack were not in the interviews from what I heard and they're not participating in the ones that are going down with Rex Ryan in Palm Beach. But the awesome listeners of the show will come up to me and ask me if I've destroyed Mike Vrabel's career because I said that teams don't like that he's fat, which is so not what I replied.
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He's powerful. My general manager said to me that Mike Vrabel is very intimidating to a lot of people, that his personality, his size. That's all I said. And it wasn't just one general manager.
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Yeah, people are back channeling, like, hey.
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Look, as someone who's had to report a lot of crappy news to you over the last few weeks, I think this will be – I think it's good for you. Okay. I think when the print balking news broke, you're back. You're back. Yeah, right. I think Ben Johnson still has a lot of questions about management in both of those organizations, which I think is pretty well known at this point. There are questions.
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Ryan Poles is leading the search. Ryan Poles is not going anywhere. I think there's some Chicago people who believe he's going to get fired at some point here when the search ends. Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles are in lockstep in this search. And they 100% have their eye on Ben Johnson and Mike Vrabel, for sure, as their top candidates.
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So, you know, let's say in this world, and it would be, I guess, Hank's best world. Graves goes to New England. Yeah, I think Ben Johnson, the chance of him landing in Chicago are much better now that Tremblake is in Jacksonville, which if you're a Jags fan, it's like, oh my goodness, are you kidding? What are we doing?
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What are we doing? But I'm interested to hear what happens after these interviews because you find out a lot about these organizations and what their plans are and how they envision themselves and what the philosophies are. And when you find out what kind of questions they've been asking. Yeah. So we'll see what they're after.
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I'm so glad you said that. I'm so glad you said it because I had somebody yesterday text me, was like, hey, don't forget, there's a world where Ben Johnson stays and looks at this coaching cycle and goes, this is not for me. This is not what I'm signing up for.
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Yeah. Yeah. look, he's great. He's an awesome play caller. I love his self-awareness, his understanding of, look, I've only been to the playoffs twice in my life.
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I wanted to come back to Detroit to just watch not only this team get back, but watch how they handle success because that's another part of growth as a coach of not just dealing with the problems, dealing with when things are good and how to manage your team and how to make good coaching decisions. So I appreciate that emotional maturity. But at some point here, you got to jump in the pool. Yeah.
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You got to do this thing.
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You look at it this way. The second the Detroit Lions stink, his chances are going to go away. That's just the reality, right? How many times have we seen this where, like you just mentioned, Lou's defense was tremendous in the Super Bowl. He's considered the Patrick Mahomes killer. And he fired him, you know?
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Yeah, yeah. I think Lou's one of those coordinators. I don't mean to be insensitive to the process because I'm sure he was hurt and upset about it, but he's one of those, they get fired and you go, all right, which head coaching candidate is going to bring Lou Adarumo on as their DC? And I can tell you there are several right now who are talking to him to try to see what he wants to do next.
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when McVay was out there. He's like the guy for a while there where like you bring that veteran presence of like, nah, look at Brian Callahan in Tennessee, right? He brought his dad.
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To help out, you know, Tennessee Titans fired their general manager, Rand Carthon.
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Well, he's got a daddy. His daddy's on the team.
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He's got two daddies. Look, I'm going more big picture, right? So you just go back one year ago, just one year ago, when they were making a decision of what to do with the general manager position. After John Robinson obviously was let go, and we know what came with that with the A.J. Brown trade and all the things with communication issues that he had with the owner, they move on.
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All right, so they collaborate with Mike Vrabel at the time and say, okay, what do we want to do next? Vrabel goes, I want to go with my player personnel guy, Ryan Cowden, who's now currently with the New York Giants. Guy kind of understands how I work. We view things the same way. And he's like a real football guy. He's a true scout. And the Titans said, no, we want Ren Carthon. He's the guy.
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And from what I understand, Vrabel just made the suggestion of, hey, like, I like Ren too. He's a great dude. Let's just make him an assistant GM.
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and let them grow on the job with Ryan. And then when the time is right, you know, he can get a GM job and they didn't want to do it. And then in the end, they obviously fired Mike Rubel, gave the power to Rand Carthon here. And now a year later, Rand Carthon is out. So to me, this says they don't know what they want.
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This also says to me that they make emotional decisions, which are the worst times, which is, you know, I think there's a difference too in making emotional decisions. Robert Kraft was emotional talking about the Gerard Mayo, but I don't think that's emotion. I don't think that's just a reaction to a bad year. This is not up to the standard I need this team to be.
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This in Tennessee is, I have to blame someone. I'm sick of it. Someone needs to fix this. Ran, it's not you. Goodbye.
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Correct. And look, it's human nature to be emotional about it and be frustrated and angry. But I think they were emotional when they fired their head coach last year. And it sounds like they're emotional here. I don't know if that's a great quality to have when you're running a business.
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No, I think the chances of him staying in Dallas are fair. I think that could happen. Look, I know that they did a little bit of work on some head coaches behind the scenes over the last few weeks, so it wouldn't shock me if they also move on.
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I just don't like how they're going about their business, how they're just kind of hanging them out to dry right now trying to figure out what he's going to do next. This entire year was really hard for him, not knowing what's going to be next. Yeah.
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Look, I think if Mike McCarthy does wind up moving on or the Dallas – Jerry says, yeah, we're going to go in a different direction, I 100% think he has a good shot at getting that Chicago Bears job.
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What's the worst – I've thought about this about – Dan, I like – David Shaw. I don't know why I'm imagining your pain, but I have. I'm like, what would move Dan so angry that I don't even want to be around him?
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They go on to be head coaches, right? Arthur Smith, Matt LaFleur. He obviously knows how to pick a good OC. So that's a good point. Anthony Weaver is a name that I'm hearing a lot of teams are putting in for. He spent three years with the Baltimore Ravens. Right now he's the DC for the Miami Dolphins coach. He was with the Texans. Another large man.
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But he, I don't want to say he's like Vrabel light, because that's taking away from Anthony's abilities individually. But he has a great way of connecting with players, holding them accountable. But he's just a little bit more laid back. Like he's cool. Yeah. But he's smart. So I can tell you people in Baltimore, they think that this is going to be the run he gets. This is the cycle.
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He'll be a head coach. It's time. So you shouldn't be disappointed if that becomes a real thing.
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I love that.
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Well, going back to what we were talking about, how everyone knows there's such a small chance of getting those jobs. So you do it. You take it. Even if you're not ready, you just do it. But I think Cliff has had some time here, time off, away, as we know. He traveled the world to sort of recenter himself.
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And now that he's having so much success as a coordinator – and he's told me in the past, too – I like play calling like all the other crap that comes with being a head coach and all the headaches that you have to deal with and the things that you have to think about and manage is, you know, it's exhausting.
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Um, so I do think he will take an interview, but I think when it comes down to it, it may be one of those situations where he decides to just stay in Washington.
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I am not happy about this. This is concerning to me. This has been over two weeks. Look, Wednesday's practice day is going to be the most important part of this process, obviously, because we'll know if he's cleared. But we're obviously starting here. The playoffs and the starting quarterback is still in concussion protocol. So, yeah, Max, you should be freaking out, my friend.
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Correct.
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But it did tweet it on Wednesday. But remember, Max, this is this is this is the news that you have to watch. he will get tested again. If he gets tested and fails, he's got to go through the whole thing again.
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oh yeah it's look i'm at a point now where i manage kevin the way you guys manage max like it's the same you're the same person so i love this guy i know what he's dealing with just all the obnoxiousness and the concerns and the my favorite thing to do because we're always we have a big calendar in our kitchen because we're busy and the big calendar you need the big calendar yeah we're like a 1983 home like it's just gigantic instead of using phones yeah
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And I will just do this. I'm like, well, if the Eagles get bounced out of the first round, I mean, just you want to cause havoc. I've been planning things. I've been planning things on Sundays and I put them in there. He's like, I don't know why I'm putting things in.
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She said it.
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I know. Memes, you do hate my reporting. I have noticed it. And I realize that you, I think, I don't think you hate me. I just think you hate the information that I'm putting out there. Is that true?
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It's brilliant. It's brilliant. I love what Rex is doing right now. I'm all behind this campaign. It's ridiculous, but it's smart because He's telling the Jets, I want this job. I'm going to do this job. You know when you're so overwhelmed by someone's confidence that you're like, wait, maybe they are good. He's telling them what he wants them to believe.
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Whereas you think Mike Vrabel was sitting there going, I want this job. I'm doing this job. I know how to fix this. Ron Rivera wasn't doing that. So you're getting a different message. So he's going to separate himself. To me, it's worth the risk.
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Yeah, so the Tom Brady influence is bigger than I think people realize. I know he's the minority owner, and there were some question marks of like, all right, well, he'll be in the background. Has Tom Brady ever been in the background of anything? He's full on in the decision-making for the Vegas Raiders.
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He talks to Mark Davis all the time, and I think you're going to see tons of Tom Brady ways and just influence on how this team is going to run. So I think the question that we probably need to consider is, is Tom Brady an Antonio Pierce fan? Does he like what he sees?
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I don't think it has to do with the Giants. I just think, look how Tom likes to do things. It's discipline. It's New England, right? It's the Patriot way. It's tight. It's accountability. It's all the things that we know. It's everything that Hank is. This is just, I don't think Antonio Pierce runs his team that way. You know, I'm not saying one is better than the other.
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I just think when it comes down to it, it goes back to that comfort of I know I can operate with that. So who's left that can do something in the way that Tom Brady wants it? Brian Flores, Mike Vrabel, right? There's New England again.
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Are we doing this again?
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He's meeting with the Bears. He's meeting with the Saints.
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I'm curious when he's going to meet with the Patriots. That's the one I haven't seen yet. Okay. I'm going to go dig on that. Okay. And Hank is all in on this, right? Yeah.
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He reported Mike Raybould to the Patriots?
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That's good.
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I actually think that's the least... interesting hire though like it's like yeah it's great and it's cool and returns home but that that's not like a shocking move if that happens no i actually like expect it to happen i want it to happen so it's like the the chess board starts to clear up a little Yeah. I mean, if he picks the Jags, then I'm like, holy cow. That came out of nowhere.
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Fine. I don't think those two are going to be in the cycle aggressively. I don't know what Sark wants to do, but every coach in college likes that buzz of the NFL. Bill O'Brien is the name I'm watching. Ooh.
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i know he loves boston college and they love him up there um but that's a name i'm watching matt campbell is a name i'm watching okay yeah i don't know about but bill o'brien i think i said raiders would make a lot of sense for bill o'brien there's another new income connection i forgot about that i didn't i didn't connect that that's great yeah um
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Look, the question was, could I see these college coaches maybe getting an opportunity? Like, yeah, but I haven't heard any of these yet. But those are the names if I had a guess at this point. I'd keep an eye on them.
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They just like to do it. But they don't have to.
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Yeah, they just like to let the world know. They just like to let the fan bases go, look, we're working.
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Yeah, see, I would... What about the teams putting out comments that they're retaining their coaches and GMs? When did we start doing this?
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But that's how I would do it. But don't you think if you have to put out a statement, like, do you think the Chiefs are going to put out Andy Reid? That would be funny.
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The Rams are like, we love Sean McVay. He's allowed to return back. Like, no. Dang. Yeah.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I am hoping this all comes together on your 40th birthday. That is the hope for me. So I can't wait to give you that big, big present that Josh McCown's your head coach. Bye, guys.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
That doesn't seem like enough, though.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
What if we have no outstanding parking tickets? I mean, you're talking about future parking tickets as well?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
What if a Jew survives a plane crash? Rabbi?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Fraud claim.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
How do you not see the other plane?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
It's like, oh, look, there's another plane right there. That's a crash.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Ridiculous conversation.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
It's like a senior bowl.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
traveling and having to you know stop in two different cities just to get here is beneath me um because i just don't like doing any of that uh i do like being here so but from a professional standpoint you like it because this is where relationships are strengthened this is where relationships are made for you correct you have time to talk to some of these gms correct
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
The queen of funk. I mean.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Goosebumps? We're not built for this. I love that Aaron Glenn wants to be the Jets head coach.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
This guy wants to be the Jets head coach for the next 20, 25 years. He does. He wants this to be his last job in the NFL. And I'll take that.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Say that. Oh, no one wants to be the Jets head coach. No one dreams of being the New York Jets head coach. Nobody except for Aaron Glenn. And I'll take it.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
I'm not certain he is. I mean, he gave up 45 points at home to the commanders. A lot of injuries.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, someone who wants to be there. Rex Ryan, Aaron Glenn, we'll take it. It's a starting point, Dan.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
They're not interesting enough?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Very low percentage. Wow.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Dan, I went to gloryhole.com. Oh, no. Don't go there.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
But still, if you're the media guy for the Cowboys. You have Jerry listening to that guy. You just say, hey, Jerry, just so you know, this has another meaning.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Well, how is this going to help? It's not. It's not. Let's find it.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, I do.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Do it in a big plane is what you're saying.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Were there planes back then? Worst people to survive plane crashes.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
If it was my mom saying it, she would not say I dated a lot. She would say she was dating every Tommy, Dickie and Harry, everyone. She couldn't find anyone. And by the way, it's funny. I know we've talked about my mom on the show. You would think my mom would side with me in all this, right? You know, to her, it's like, oh, he's got to go to the game.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
You know, it's like, oh, now you care about the Eagles, Camille. Now you're all in on Philly. When I was marrying him, you weren't too sure. Now it's all about Kevin. But that's just like that old school mentality of if the husband's not happy, no one is around.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I'm only doing this because this is going to get picked up on Philly radio. And my father-in-law and my brother-in-laws are all listening to that. So I don't want to deal with the rap that comes with it because I did it once. And boy, did that cause a problem.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I don't trust that people will not pull their hair out with my children. It's not it's not. I will put them with anybody if anyone wants to help out. It's I don't know if anyone actually wants to experience this. They're three and two. They think they're dinosaurs. They bite each other all day long. All they want to do is wrestle each other.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So it's not like you can just sit and hang with them and, you know. scroll through TikTok. You have to get down with them and separate them at all times because it's just a constant war zone in my house. So it's not so much about finding someone. It's not so much about them and feeling that motherly connection of, I don't trust anyone out there with my children.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Sean McDermott's preparation and how he got the Bills ready, they were tougher, they were more physical. And while Sean McDermott's definitely gotten a lot of credit this season for putting his team in a good position with a roster that I don't think was really blowing anyone away earlier in the year,
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I just think they had a great game plan for the Baltimore Ravens when we've seen so many other teams struggle against Baltimore. They think they know how to slow them down. They always say, I've talked to a million defensive coordinators leading up to games where they face the Ravens and they all say the same thing. They actually executed it, though.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So I just thought this was a great game for their head coach.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Possibly. I think Aaron Glenn is definitely their number one choice. He's in the building right now. I don't think they're going to let this guy out unless he signs this contract or at least agrees to it. It has been a very long search. They've interviewed multiple candidates, as you guys know. They never met with Ben Johnson, but I know from... having a couple conversations.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
It was kind of Mike Vrabel, and then they didn't know what they wanted to do. And then they met with Aaron Glenn, and they're really happy with him. So we'll see if they'll be able to get that done. I expect that to get done.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Growth, self-awareness, all the things that you want from a leader. And that's what he had last year in making that decision to stay in Detroit. And he's learned a lot about losing. He's learned a lot about winning. Now he's going to Chicago because he's got the quarterback. He believes in Caleb Williams. There's a lot of people around the league who think that Caleb Williams is untapped talent.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
He hasn't had the right coaching. And Ben Johnson is going to bring out the best version of him.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Yep, that is the reason. Everyone wants to know what would happen. Was the Raiders just a play for him to get a better deal, more money? No, the Raiders were real. Tom Brady was a very convincing owner in trying to get Ben Johnson to go there because they were gonna make it the Brady way. But in the end, In the end, I think Ben Johnson said, I need the quarterback. Vegas doesn't have it.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I don't think the Jacksonville setup is for me. Chicago has the best scenario for me. I'm going there to coach Caleb Williams.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Yeah, for sure. Young, rookie deal here. And also, there's still really good pieces in Chicago. And, you know, you'll see some fans out there going, but Chicago, it's Chicago. Coaches aren't looking at it like that. They're just going, how can I do it quickly?
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Had a good game. Improved as the season went on. I think they had a really tough season. I think they're going to address a lot of their weaknesses. Offensive line obviously being the biggest issue.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I do not. I think Ryan Day is going to stay at Ohio State. He's happy to be there. They want him there now. And oh, how the tides have turned, because you're right, just a few weeks ago, I was trying to find out who was going to be the next Ohio State coach. But he obviously won this thing out, and they believe in him. I think he'll stay there.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Marcus Freeman was the one I was watching in the game last night.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Because, Mike, I believe if the Chicago Bears didn't land on Ben Johnson, if Ben Johnson wound up going to the Raiders, I think that there was a world where the Bears were going to try to get Marcus Freeman to at least meet with them. The question would have been, would Marcus be willing to do it? He just got paid by Notre Dame, obviously. He likes being there, but they definitely wanted him.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Yeah, I was looking at him professionally. I do think some of the camera shots and some of the social media posts about him are really thirsty. Like there's just like it's like a lot like every time they show him, it's not just like a regular shot of a coach. It's like there's just there's there's a lot of electricity around him. And I think there's some fans out there who enjoy looking at him.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Not really my type, though.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
That has been the biggest difference in Josh Allen.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Last weekend. Yes.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I, I had a lot of people in the league texting with you during the game. You know, guys that aren't playing, obviously, um, And it was pretty wild right there in the last five minutes how many texts I got of Sirianni's going to get fired. And not to be entertained or laugh at it, but it's at this point.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Travis Kelsey is.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Mike Ryan, the only person that's asked me about the Tennessee Titans in a year. They have the number one pick.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
That died down. I told you guys last week when I came on. Look, could it go back? Could Jerry get desperate here and go, oh man, Kellen Moore, nah, Brian Schottenheimer, no. The Brian Schottenheimer thing is a little bizarre to me because obviously he's on the staff there in Dallas. But Jerry let the rest of the coaching staff that was in place with Mike McCarthy go.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So some of these guys are getting jobs as assistants on other teams now. Some are unemployed. If you're going to hire someone in-house, wouldn't you want to keep the rest of that coaching staff intact? Again, no plan. Gallus had no plan.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
If there's been any takeaway from all of this and just from even having conversations around the league, I don't think Jerry Jones believed that Mike McCarthy was really going to walk.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
They didn't meet with Ben Johnson. They didn't meet with Mike Vrabel. The two top dogs, they didn't go after because he hadn't made a decision yet. And I do believe that Jerry thought that he'd be able to work out a deal with Mike McCarthy, which is why they're behind the ball on this.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
He should just be an actor full-time.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
He's the GM. He's got full control. Absolute full control. Just why you're going to see the Kellen Lords and the Brian Schottenheimers get these interviews because these are the type of personnel. These guys have personalities that a, they understand the owner, right? That that's a, that's the biggest challenge in working in Dallas is getting how this is going to work.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
It's not like any other operation. Just look at the post game. The cameras are around Jerry. They're not even around the head coach. It's going to be like a, it's like a competition. But if you are, if you're cool with that, if you get it, you understand it. Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy, you can make it work, make it work.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
No, you shouldn't. I spoke to Andy in the summer about it, and I thought he was going to give me more of like, yeah, you know, I've won so much. He is so rejuvenated and energized. Why would you retire, too, if you've got Patrick Mahomes? So I don't see Andy Reid retiring on top of the fact that he signed a five-year contract in the offseason. But for Spags...
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I think he'll continue to just get shots at head coaching jobs. I just don't know if he'll be able to land one. And I don't know why. I don't know why. I just think he's so valuable and he's so good at being a coordinator. And that's okay.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
A great coach.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Heartbroken.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So you want me to pontificate on each of them? Mike Tomlin's going to stay in Pittsburgh. I know there was a little chatter Schefter put out that the Chicago Bears called about a trade possibility. I think that stuff happens a lot more than what we realize. Kevin Warren there, the president of the Chicago Bears, loves Mike Tomlin. So that makes all the sense of the world.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
But I don't think Mike Tomlin is going anywhere.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Dan Campbell, he's going to have to figure out what he's going to do with the coordinator positions because he just lost his offensive coordinator. He's most likely losing his defensive coordinator probably today.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So I think there's going to be a big shift and perhaps maybe even a step back, just like we saw with the Philadelphia Eagles that year that they won the Super Bowl and they lost both coordinators. Remember that? Jonathan Gannon went to Arizona. Shane Steichen went to the Indianapolis Colts. So I think losing coordinators always is a bigger storyline than you realize. Tom Brady.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Has a lot of, lot of, lot of power in Las Vegas for an owner. And we criticize owners all the time for getting too involved. This is the first time Tom Brady's doing this ownership thing. And I think we're all giving him a pass because he's Tom Brady. But it's a different beast. It's not playing quarterback. There's a lot more that goes into it.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
And replicating the way you do it in New England may not be the way in Vegas.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Gosh, he's going to wake up in May sitting by the pool with his kids, just relax and go, oh, my God, I cannot believe I dropped that. I can't believe I let that ball go. I think that's one of those situations, those things that lives with you forever. But he's still one of the greats. And it was surprising. And it's not C.J.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
He improved at the end of the year. I still think he's a really good quarterback. I think what we saw last year was pretty magical. Obviously Jaden Daniels came out here in his rookie season here and blew that away. Perhaps the best rookie quarterback performance we've ever seen. But I think CJ is still a really good quarterback. He just needs some protection and another weapon this next season.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Let's keep going.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I know. You're right. We don't have a cool relationship. We just we really love each other and we get each other. But this football stuff is it's garbage. It's ruining us. Like, I can't wait for this season to end. It has nothing to do with the pressure of being an insider. I love my job. It's going awesomely. I just need some reprieve. I need to just chill. So let's go.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Let's just get to free agency here.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Thank you, Billy. Thank you. No new hair. Same hair. Hair I've always had on my head. I think I just started a little different. It's been it's been a crazy couple hours this week, knowing that not only are we dealing with the playoffs, but we got coaches getting hired. And so just chasing the stories around. So this is the best I can do for you guys today. I hope it's good enough for the show.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Well, there's actually a story behind this. So if you see, it says to my jelly, Diana. Oh, so cute. Right. So we got these mugs as a wedding gift. When Kevin and I got married, he's got the peanut butter. It's like he's I guess he's the peanut butter to my jelly. I don't know. In my house, though, these represent something that he needs or wants. OK, so he uses these mugs. as mental warfare.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Most of my mugs are like regular things that say like best mom ever. And, you know, go NFL, whatever it says.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
This is I want to go to Philadelphia on Sunday for the NFC championship game. He went last weekend, because remember, guys, last time I was with you, I said that Kevin and I were trying to figure out what we wanted to do. I needed to go to the game to do my job. He has season tickets with his family.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Correct. So... I would argue that watching that game on Sunday was actually better at home. So I feel like I did win because according to him, it was very cold. They were crying, all of it, everything he's wanted and lived for happened on Sunday, but obviously there's, there's more to this. So now we are trying to figure out what we're going to do on Sunday because I, the,
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
senior NFL insider for The Athletic, owned by The New York Times, would like to attend the NFC Championship game. Um... but he feels that he needs to go. So this is the first sign. He has not said it, but I just know what this is, that he's going to come home tonight and think that this puts me in a good mood. I obviously have a very low bar for what I accept in this home, that this gets it done.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Like a dumb peanut butter and jelly mug can work me, but he knows. And he worked me on Sunday and he's going to probably do it again this week.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I don't know if it's cool. It's very procedural. It's very logistic. We have two kids, obviously, as you know. So we are trying to make this work. We actually say this all the time of like, we just got to get through the day. And then when the babies go to bed, then it's our time. Guess what our time is? Yeah, nothing. Me in the basement tweeting. Yeah. Him upstairs watching Netflix.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Yeah. And asking me if I spoke to Saquon or if Jalen texted me back, you know, like just like actually has the nerve right now to ask some injury updates to through this.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
i've always said that i always thought this fan base didn't necessarily care about the name on the back of the jersey they care about the philadelphia eagle emblem on the on the front that's all they care about it's just about the eagles it doesn't matter who's in that helmet even though they love their athletes and they say they do and you know when bryce harper enters any room it's like Crazy.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Whoever their star player is, Saquon right now at this moment. To them, though, it's it's just about Philadelphia winning no matter what it takes. And the Sirianni argument, especially in this house, has been so up and down because. Kevin is a lot like Stu when it comes to him. He's like, the guy wins. I don't care if you think he's not the greatest coach.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I don't care if you think Sean McVay could run laps around him when it comes to game management and coaching decisions and locker room and culture and all the great things that come with Sean McVay. He's like, he won the game. That's all that matters. And I kind of think that that's just like a small microcosm of how Eagles fans do it. And it is a religion. I married into it. So I didn't,
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I've told you guys on this show before, I grew up, I was a big Yankees fan. We're a baseball family. But the level of this, it's so committed that just think about the situation I have in my house. It is my job to cover football.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
And I'm actually considering not doing that job because I understand the importance that it is for him to attend this and watch this in person because I know how much it means to him.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
You know, I think for our overall happiness at this point, attending that game with his father and brothers is probably more important than me talking to A.J. Brown after the game. I have to weigh it. You guys know my style. I'm a boots-on-the-ground kind of reporter. I left ESPN for the Athletic. Right, so my career's a little different now. I'm not at the games as much.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I'm not at practice the way I used to be. So these opportunities, these big games give me this chance to then go be around the sport I love and see it in person. So we're weighing this. And I think at the end of the day, as much as I love my career, and you guys know I come on the show and I talk about how committed I am to trying to be the best at this,
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
I think I need my household to be happy in order for the rest of it to fall together.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
So I think in this moment, I don't want to look back in a few years and let's just say the Eagles never go back to the NFC championship game and think, I went to just do another NFC championship game, my 10th one, and Kevin missed out on something with his dad and his brothers and the rest of Philadelphia because everyone will be attending because it's not like I have anyone to watch my kids because they'll all be at the game.
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Hour 1: Dianna Russini Explains Philadelphia Eagles Fans
Things are thrown around in this house, no doubt. You know what's funny? I saw Big Dom a couple weeks ago, and he said to me, he's such a good guy. And he's like, if you ever need anything, you know, you call me. And I was like, a nanny? And he's like, just call me. And maybe that's who I need to call in this situation.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
You're listening to DraftKings Network.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
So good. It's so good. But it wasn't like it was a reach in terms of that character of what he was talking about. It was pretty reflective of his own life, of his own feelings. It's it's not like we're asking him to go out there, you know, name a situation right now where it would be something out of sorts for Jerry Jones.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
I have so many questions watching that. I want to know how many takes. I want to know where he put his head at. Like, did he have an acting coach? How many times they went through this? I want to know what Jon Hamm thought about that. That was incredible. My question is, is there another owner in football? that could go toe-to-toe with Jerry Jones in that scene. Who could do that?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
No. John Mara. John Mara. He's got acting in his blood.
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jimmy haslam auditioning for the role this is where my head went i went to the owners meetings and when i'm running around the lobby in the hotel trying to talk to all these guys who holds court with presence right who sits there and just owns that circle of reporters that are asking them a million questions most owners are awkward and uncomfortable by it
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Arthur Blank is comfortable in that circle. John Mara, obviously you saw him talking about Dayball and Joe Shane yesterday. He's comfortable. He's probably the best answer because obviously his niece, excuse me, his granddaughter is a famous actress herself. So I will attract my answer on Arthur Blank. I'll say John Mara is my number one.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
I was just thinking. Have you ever heard Jimmy Haslam talk? He talks slower. He asks a lot more questions to you. And he thinks it through. So just take the pace down a little bit.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
So I got to go sit back down. And now she's just absolutely horrified that she stepped into the shot just have me to keep walking. Right nobody cares show more mean I want to see more mean unless Adam anyways. And now she's just horrified. Marcus is being a good big brother there with the arm around her. Like, look, it's not a big deal. It happens.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
First of all, I've sat in that studio a million times. There's like 90 cameras. So I'm with Mina. I feel bad for her there. How is she supposed to know? By the way, why are you having her move during the show anyways? Just have her sit there. Look at her on Netflix. She sat in that same spot pretty much the whole show, and I'm with you.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
My takeaway from Netflix actually was, and this isn't some female empowerment moment here, I thought the women, held that entire broadcast down. No, held it up, right? Kay Adams was a star. Laura Rutledge was an absolute star. Mina Kimes, all three of them. It was like they've done this every day because they do do it every day.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Reps certainly help, but they were certainly the most educated, most poised, most conversational. So credit to that. And that was awesome.
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Mina, not a good actor. I've had to do stuff with her. Not good.
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And lifted it up.
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Sounds heavy. It does sound heavy. I would rather hold it down.
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yeah holding it down i just kind of just yeah but there's met expectations lifting it i find i think there's strength in holding it down and push down either way we're keeping it i'm in control you hold up your arms get tired your back goes out a little the legs get a little weak you hold down and and i think you're in more control you have all the power so thanks mina for holding it down
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
If you told me Brian Hoyer was the backup quarterback in Indy right now on the roster, I would actually believe you, right? He's not playing anymore, right?
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You know what? I think he's in the media now. I think I saw him tweet yesterday now that we're talking about it.
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Her cousin's his roommate in college.
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I want to get this story, Billy. There are a number of things that I have to get to, okay?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
I think it's both. I think it's all of it. I think this has been a really hard time in his life for a lot of different reasons, but he's also not the same person. I was there in Cleveland during training camp and just as someone standing on the sideline and I've covered Deshaun Watson for a lot of years, especially when he was with the Texans.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
He does not have that same sparkle at all when it comes to his interactions with his teammates, with the coaching staff. It's like he's doing it and he's trying it, but he's the dull version of himself now. And you're right. You have to wonder how much of all of this has affected his psyche, his confidence. Because to Mike's point, there were definitely moments where you saw little...
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little shine from him. And it was like, there it is, get it, come on, stick with it, like find it. And then it would never pan out. So how do you fix it? How do you have, How does this coaching staff figure out a way to bring out the best in him? Because I can tell you, even in the building, it's not great.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
We've seen other players go through life situations that may not be as bizarre, but just as complicated and have those off the field conflicts yet. And they can go play. Right. We've seen Players over the years in every sport battle through. We saw Kobe Bryant do it, right? Where you're in the middle of something and you're able to overcome it. He's not been able to overcome this.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
I don't think, look, I don't know this, but you have to wonder if he even loves to play at this point.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
What do you want the Browns to do, though? Like, at this point. What do you think Jimmy Haslam should do?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, they're going quarterback. Guys, they see what we see. This is not a mystery. This is not like they're psyched about Deshaun Watson's ability, leadership, play. They know this isn't great, but they've also have no way out of this. So they've got to sort of just barrel through. And it's almost like they're constructing their team as if Deshaun Watson isn't a part of it, right?
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
They've got to move forward here and find the answer because I do think the fan base will forgive Deshaun If they hit on a quarterback and this young guy comes out and, let's just say, beats Deshaun in camp and the Browns head to the playoffs next year with a rookie quarterback, I think there will be some forgiveness.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
But here's the other interesting part to that, Mike. I over the weekend, I was just talking to a couple of general managers about last year's draft class, you know, just how quarterback heavy and talented this group is. And obviously we're seeing this now in the playoffs with the young rookies that are the stars of the show. And I was I was asking about these upcoming quarterbacks.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Where would they fall last year's draft class? And two GMs said, definitely after Bo Nix, one said Cam would probably fall before Bo because some team probably wouldn't have understood or believed how good Bo is, right?
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Hold on.
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Bo Nix is holding them down in Denver.
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Jaden Daniels is lifting them up in Washington. Interesting.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
No, I didn't think it was a great script just to defend him there. I thought the writing could have been better. They weren't really pushing him. They almost wrote it in a way to make him sound dumb, whereas I think a script like we heard yesterday in the press conference, that's a job well done when he was talking about the changes at his head coaching position.
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Thanks, guys. Great to see you.
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I didn't know that you guys were coming to me now. I thought you were teasing ahead of what you wanted to ask me. Hi, guys.
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I did. I heard you loud and clear.
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Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so either. I don't think that's that much money for an owner if he really wants. And the problem is I don't know of an owner right now in the league that's looking for a head coach that is sitting there going, OK, these options are not good enough. Let's go call up Bill Belichick.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
If you guys remember on the show we talked about right before Bill took that job at UNC. The oddest of connections between Bill Belichick and the New York Jets came to light, where right before he took the UNC job, he was talking to them about possibly meeting and having a conversation. And you guys know the history with Belichick and the New York Jets, and he spent the whole
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season on the Manning cast, on every podcast that we know, taking shots at Woody Johnson, taking shots at the organization, a guy that resigned after a day when he was named the head coach there. So the fact that he communicated with Mike Tannenbaum, who's running that Jets search team to see if maybe he could get in there, tells me that is really where his heart has been.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
He was willing to go work for an owner he doesn't even respect based on how he's talked about him on the air. But to him, I think being a coach with all the power is still what he wants. And that's why I think Jacksonville is off the table, Mike, because look who's still the GM there, Trent Balke. Bill Belichick does not want to work with Trent Balke.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
That is not a situation that was ever going to pan out.
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I think it's a little bit of his own doing in terms of being a good relationship person with the owners. He's really earned that belief from them that he knows what he's doing. But also people tell me that he's a really hard worker. He's one of those guys, he's always in the building, he's always around. And Mike, I do think in this process, a lot of owners don't wanna clear house
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
without anyone being in charge to help with the process, right? Because you get rid of the GM, you get rid of the head coach. Who's calling the shots? You are as the owner. And I don't necessarily believe every owner feels that comfortable calling the shots in terms of the football operation.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
So Trent is a little bit of that safety net for them as they cast a pretty wide net here as we're seeing Aaron Glenn and Liam Cohen Matt Nagy, Anthony Weaver, all these guys expected to get interviews with the Jacksonville Jags.
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I love his strategy, right? It's like he is forcing them. He's trying to sort of manipulate the process. Like I'm telling you you're hiring me and they're like, yeah, no, we're not doing that, right? Like, thank you. I appreciate it. And you gotta love the confidence. And I will say in a pool of coaches right now that doesn't have that much experience, I see what Rex is doing.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
And I think he's going to do really well in this interview because I know the Jets, Mike Tannenbaum, again, leading that search. They are looking for someone who knows what they're doing, who can navigate this journey for them, who knows all the booby traps and the hurdles that come with being a New York Jet head coach. And if anyone knows it, it's Rex Ryan. Yeah.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
But don't you think it's funny that Mike Tannenbaum, the general manager of the New York Jets that was fired, who fired Rex Ryan as the head coach, and now they're all sitting together in Palm Beach at Woody Johnson's house talking about how together they can come up with a winning way. It's bonkers.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, you know, it's interesting. When you talk about the Chiefs right now, they're at a point where they've got like 20-something days off. And Andy told the guys after the game, guys that stay in shape, you know, let's keep our weight down. I've got to keep my weight down. So he's very self-aware of what's going on there. So I'm with you that I think he knows enough –
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at this point in his life that, you know what? Who cares? Just take the shirt off and jump in there.
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inquiring right I don't think they were full-on shopping Cooper Cup but I can tell you there were three different teams that had conversations with the Rams about their interest in trading for him before the trade deadline uh and I don't think Cooper knew of it and and I think after that moment and if you remember right before the trade deadline the the Rams weren't great I understood why that front office was looking to move him at the time um obviously the other
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side to this is the fact that he's been there for seven years he helped win them a Super Bowl he's loved in that organization so I think after that moment and since then and understanding the future for them I think both sides know it's over and they both want to go in different directions despite the fact that they've had such a great time together every great run comes to an end
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Oh, I agree. But David, what about the positions you were in when you were just interested to see what that market would be that maybe you decide not to even tell the player about it? Because it's just light conversations. You're just trying to get a feel. Did that ever happen? And did you think that the player would need to be told that even if it was just flirting?
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Send him to the bathroom. Tell him to stop by my side.
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I got one of the best rookie quarterbacks coming on my show today. I got to go prep back.
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Is that a game? Is that a thing?
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I understand, especially as a woman, how ugly jealous can look on you, so I'm trying to contain myself. But I'm staring over at Kay Adams' set, and it looks like a palace. She's got couches. She's got a makeup artist, a hairstylist, a stylist over there. Someone's massaging her feet right now. I don't even have an outlet over there. I can't charge people for that.
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So, look, I got to get over this. You got a bathroom, though. I am going to think about David this whole day, though. It's about the quality of these interviews, what I'm sharing with the listeners. No one cares if my nails are a cool color because I had someone do it for Super Bowl games. They care about the inside, the intel. So, David, thank you for you.
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Well, we will see you. You are really putting me to the test.
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Dan, I want to play this game because I've thought about stuff like this, but I have to preface it with the answer is going to probably be yes to anyone. I'm an Italian Catholic that lives in the Northeast, and it's a hobby to attend funerals for my people. It's just like what you do. Everyone in my family goes to everyone's wake.
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I'd speak at it.
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Even if not asked.
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No, this was. I don't cover the story. Take a selfie, too.
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Yeah, that's my best friend. I'd probably speak at it. I would. This is an outrage.
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Absolutely. Okay, you stink.
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Yeah, we've actually scared people away from our conversations over here. I've been spending the last 20 minutes catching up with Stu. We are doing... There's no conversation about football or family. I've just been complaining to him for the last 20 minutes. So he's trying to help me here feel better about my space here on Radio Row.
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I'm stuck talking to Doug. I look at Stu. I go, that's it. My setup is the Doug Kazarian of setups. Like, it's just, you know.
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That is my setup. No. So here's my thought. There's not much I can do. Like that's my colleague, Robert Mays. He's fantastic. He's got the football podcast on The Athletic. This is not a knock on Robert. Robert had nothing to do with this, but that's going to be the Scoop City setup. It's facing the bathrooms.
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I can't even grab an athlete walking by, someone trying to sell a cart, nothing. You guys, I mean, this is just prime real estate. You can see everything.
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All the action here. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to have guests walk up to our set and help decorate and maybe make it a little bit more electric. I've started already. I'm just going to hold this up. Scoop City, you can come by. Yeah.
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Love it. Live for this. First of all, New Orleans is the best city. They should just have the Super Bowl here every single year. It's compact. It's close. It feels just like one big party in your town. I've only been here 24 hours and I'm saying this. The food's delicious. Everyone is just happy to be here. So I just think the energy, it's
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Because it's so early in the week and you can feel it already, I can't imagine what this is going to be by Thursday and Friday. And just the fact that we start the week with a bomb of Miles Garrett asking for a trade, that was music to my ears because it actually was a little slow. There wasn't much going on. So now that becomes the thing everyone's talking about here.
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It means that the Browns are going to have to make a really hard decision. And I don't think anyone thinks this is going to be easy. In fact, I had somebody in the league share with me yesterday that they just think this could get really messy. Because this isn't about a new contract in Cleveland for Miles Garrett, right?
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Because we've seen players do this all the time where they just want to get paid by the team that they're on. We saw it with Brandon Ayuk. We saw it with Debo Samuel. They threaten, they stay. Lamar Jackson threatens, they stay. This is about winning for Myles Garrett.
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This is about him wanting to go be part of an organization that is built towards winning and getting closer to it, a situation that he doesn't feel is happening in Cleveland.
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When you think about what he has seen from his vantage point and he's around these guys and he knows what their process is and he knows what this future is going to look like, you can understand why he's probably not psyched about the plan that the Browns have, knowing that this probably all went off course when they gave Deshaun Watson that deal.
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You'd be surprised.
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David, my issue with it is no one knows where I am, who I am. This is such a saturated place. And no one even knows where I work anymore. So I wanted something with just like, like even an ice cream truck.
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Maybe I should get a band. A marching band just around me.
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My view will be you smoking cigs, just taking down a couple of heaters in between some of your interviews.
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Michael Pittman's at my step.
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Yeah, let's do this. I know I'm not scheduled to come on this Friday because you'll have big name guests, but maybe I'll pop on for about four minutes and just give you an update of how my week went. The first time representing Scott City here on Radio Row at the bathroom. Poop City. That's what I should change my name to.
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Maybe that's the play, is to just keep track of everyone's bathroom habits and just give updates throughout. Like today, I'm interviewing Kirk Cousins and Drake May. And while I'm interviewing, stop the interview with Kirk Cousins after I ask him what the heck is he going to do next year. Be like, quick update for you here. Pat McAfee just went to the bathroom for the fourth time in the last hour.
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So tell me more about what this experience is like.
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Did you feel like you ever got a little too greedy? Because now you're in a position where you're going to probably be in Cleveland.
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Yeah, it does matter. But let's just go back to the time right before the trade deadline. I think I was actually on the show telling you about how... the Rams were calling around to different teams to move him, right? And so he obviously found out about that. So he's known his time with L.A. was coming to an end.
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If they were showing that kind of interest, and look, the Rams came out and said, no, no, we're not dealing him. And I think it got a little messy in terms of the communication. And, David, you can speak to it better than any of us about what the best process is when you're –
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of a talented defense has to be toughness. There's no finesse in defense. No defense is dominating because they have a soft touch but good mechanics and they're technically sound. Okay, those could be true, but it has to be blanketed by overall toughness.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I love that you and I have such different issues in life. Like you have this beautiful accent, obviously. And people think because of that, it sounds intellectual and perhaps in some cases softer. Whereas like, you know, I sound very New Jersey. It's the opposite. It's, it's, Gross. And it's hard. Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
So it's like we both have to battle things separately, which is why in this Jets piece that that was published today that I worked on with Mike Silver and Zach Rosenblatt. I want you to do the audio version of the Jets piece for me, because I think if I read it, Jets fans are going to feel like I'm attacking them. But I feel like if Meech does it, they're going to go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
OK, maybe things aren't so bad and we can give them some hope to balance out all the stuff that we uncovered about this team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, there's a lot there. I think the Madden rating stands out the most because I do think players worry about Madden ratings, but I always looked at it as something just superficial, something that just played into their egos and just wanting to have a high rating and be among the best in the video game. But the fact that the owner of the Jets
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
used a rating to make a decision about whether or not he was going to trade Jerry Judy. That was stunning to me. And there are a lot of people around the league who knew about it. And this wasn't the first time that Woody had ever referenced a Madden rating in reference to Jets players that he either had on his roster or perhaps were targeting in the offseason.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
So, you know, this trade was obviously with Denver and they were certainly blown away like, wait,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
you're not going to trade jerry duty because of a madden rating and guys obviously woody johnson's not sitting there playing madden at 78 years old i mean if he is um that's that's cool uh but i don't think he is so the people that are are his teenage sons um he has an 18 year old and a 16 year old son who who He listens to a lot and he's been part of conversations in the building.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He's been in the draft room. He's in the locker room after games. The sons are part of it, which is normal, by the way. Most owners have their children part of the operation, part of their business. But there's definitely a lot of people that have worked for the Jets.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
the currently people that work for them right now as well, who say that the teenage sons have a lot of juice in the building and affect a lot of the decision making. So I'd say the Madden nugget is certainly interesting. But to me, Dan, when I was collecting a lot of this intel The story about Mike White really bothered me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And we dug on this, Mike Silver, Zach Rosenblatt and I, to just get a little bit more information about how Woody Johnson was treating his players. So if you recall, Mike White was a bit of a New York hero there when he took over as a starter and tried to get the Jets in the playoffs. He ultimately wasn't able to do it. And he's playing with broken ribs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I know we talked about toughness a few minutes ago. And he was out there just battling through all of this. And the story goes, he came in the locker room, and he went into the shower. And right before he went into the locker room, he's throwing his helmet because he's upset, obviously. And Woody Johnson yells out into the locker room in front of his teammates, yeah, you should throw your helmet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
You suck. The Jets told me through a spokesperson that they later apologized. But that just tells you about the treatment of players in a building that I understand that owners want to win. I think we all get it. He's passionate. He wants results.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But to understand what was going on there and to treat your players that way, I think that obviously is something that does not reflect very well on this Jets organization. So that's just another part of this. And obviously, there's a lot more to it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I can't wait, guys. Thanks for having me on, Meech. I'll be checking this out in a few.